Herb. [f. BLIND a. 12; from its wanting the characteristic stinging quality of nettles proper.] The Dead-nettle; also the Hemp-nettle and Hedge Nettle or Wood Woundwort.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., 311. Archangelica, blindnetle.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. cxciii. (1495), 730. The deed nettyll or the blynde nettyl.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. lxxxviii. 131. At this present it is called … in English … Blinde nettell.
1736. Bailey, Houshold Dict., 113. Blind Nettle … is of a heating, drying, digestive and incisive quality.
1878. Britten & Holland, Plant-n.
